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Not surprised at all.

What's the use of opposing n silencing it in the background and then supporting it in the open? Spiteful n bitter ineffectuals imposed on us by the IB himself.

While the shallow minded will quickly try to pin our woes on Buhari I like to remind them Buhari didn't cause our dependence on oil sales or crash the oil prices.
If the state govts had, over time, invested to make profits, just 30% of their capital expenditure by now they will all be reaping mad benefits and not seeking bailout to pay dormant workers.
When the money was in excess it was all about sharing n stealing at various levels.

I like to know also. What kind of private biz.

porka:
One of the grandest international conspiracies (mysteries) in human history.

Mission accomplished.

All Chibok girls are returning home from the safehouse(s) where they are being safely kept.

All is well that ends well.

It will take another "leak" to know what happened.

For now, we shall live with their orchestrated narratives.

Imagine if $2.1B had been put to good use and the girls had be tracked early enough. It could even end up being part of the stolen arms money that were being used to feed and keep the girls.

Seun:
If the government has them, why not let them go home?

have them how?

I was thinking that the sudden calls from some of the girls' hitherto dead phone lines and this video/plea is part of BH campaign to support their demand for $50m ransom and make it look real enough to get govt's attention but it appear the govt had the video for some months and knew what the people didn't.

My suspicion is that the sudden calls from some of the girls' hitherto dead phone lines and this video/plea is part of BH campaign to support their demand for $50m ransom and make it look real enough to get govt's attention.

Sai baba . . .

Ukodos to the DSS . .

If we can pay prayer warriors, what else do ynu expect?

enlightenedmind:
We still Import yes, but the idea is to get it down to 0. And It is so dangerous for all Nigerians that there are people in this country who cannot be logical and put aside their hatred, paid political affiliations or religious divides and have a logical sensible discussion about a political failure of our govt. I would have supported you if you said all politicians are useless but the fact that you sit there and try to defend PDP, when there is damming evidence that PDP destroyed this country by allowing us to be exploited and saying there was no problem if the poor got poorer provided they got richer. They even said they won't allow any other political party take power because they need to keep looting.

READ
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/11/1159718_re-analysis-for-comment-nigeria-an-upcoming-presidential.html

From Obasanjo down to LGA chairmen, they are corrupt. Now we are here defending stupid politicains and creating political divides like senseless people.
Who ruled the PDP? OBJ Who rules the APC? OBJ +TINUBU

so spear me this blur of party divide. It is only a matter of what party hides the corruption the best. The game is the same, the players are same, the stakes are the same the Umbrella has simply changed.

Nigeria will begin to improve when our youths begin to have sense.

How many of you screaming PDP and APC here even know what a fiscal policy is?

How many of you know the effects and dynamics of Long-term and Short-term economic and social changes on economic demand and supply?

How many of you youths know the meaning of "Capital" and how it is formed?

Did you people know that 90% of the entire world's wealth belongs to only 1% of the entire world population?

If bill gates decides to stop working and do nothing and spend $1billion a year, it would take him 3 centuries (300 years) to run out of money.

Our politicians are said to be what keeps the American and Switz banks running. They take our money there hide it and come here and tell us they are fighting opposition bullshit.

If you do not know these things please do not feel you are competent enough to have a political or an economic perspective. Look at this OP defending importation. Obviously you do not know how to define "Economic Wealth" because if u did, you will never post what u just posted.

NIGERIANS PLEASE DO THE WORLD A FAVOUR AND EDUCATE URSELFS. STOP COMING HERE AND EMBARASSING THE COUNTRY. PEOPLE READ THIS FORUMS. THE ONLY REASON WHY THEY CAN EXPLOIT US IS BECAUSE WE DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY DOING WRONG. AND THEY ARE DOING IT SO OPENLY.

Compare the bold to the claim that we import no rice. . . Stop vibrating. State facts and stop the vile rantings

Come to think of it, stealing isn't corruption, made these people transfer funds openly and help simplify Buhari goal. Gay cell mate is his portion in jail. Atleast Nigerian criminals will know what they have been missing since they refuse to rat on their politician employers and make them improve jail conditions.

plaetton:
You are all over the place, not making any good logical arguments.

Are you blaming Jonathan for what he did in office or what he didn't do ?

Point out a flaw or flaws in GEJ's management of the economy.
The economy was well managed.

Sure , he could have done much better. But that applies to everyone, every world leader after they office.

GEJ supervised the above points u quoted when our income was highest in history and left highest debt in our history. Yes or No?

otil1:
When they say 16 years of waste, I believe they pray that ALL Nigerians become 16years old and unable to remember life prior to 1999.

Can APC prove to Nigerians that pre-1999 Nigeria is better than Nigeria at May 29th, 2015? Never!

Given, there have been lost opportunities that should have been tapped. No doubt about that.

But the key issue now is that given the rate of performance of APC-led administration, now is the time to talk about waste.

Or is it not clear to all and sundry that Nigeria has lost the first critical 1year of a new administration?

-Roads paved -zero
-Rails added -zero
-New Power generating capacity -zero
-Running existing power installation -negative
-Jobs -negative (job losses)
-Naira exchange rate - lowest ever
-Inflation rate - highest ever

Meanwhile, the 16 years they like to refer to are the 16 years that ushered in:

-GSM, an empowerment too in the hand of every Nigerian
-ATM, Nigerians now part of global financial system with Visa and Mastercard usable globally (until Buhari came to power)
-Bank consolidation (bye bye to failed bank syndrom)
-Bank recapitalisation, making our financial institutions acceptable all over the globe
-Credible elections (now a worsening indices)
-Self sufficiency in Cement
-Self sufficiency in Rice
-self sufficiency in Cassava
-Self sufficiency in Poultry; all thanks to food security programmes
-IPP that grew our power generating capcity to over 10,000MW. 1st ever.
-Paved road -35,000km by GEJ alone
-Min wage from below N4,000 to N18,000
-new rail projects
-new airport terminals
-New international airports (Enugu, Akwa Ibom)
-Numerous new domestic airports (Asaba,Ilorin,etc.)
-more
-and more

A beg, Nigeria moved forward last 16 years.

Stop lying bros . . .
We still import rice.
Also all what u listed even if they actually done wouldn't account for half the debt inherited from 16 yrs of misrule.

Stop peddling lies of 10,000MW that don't exist. If our total transmission capacity is less than 6000MW why didn't the Thieves you're defending upgrade it and show us you paper 10,000mx?

Buhari is right. The 16 year of waste is our biggest problem today. To start with, compare us to other countries who depend on oil. Norway, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Emirate. These people invest in other sectors when there surge in price as well as saved huge amounts. Can you say the same of Jonathan and PDP's 16yrs?
What we experienced in 16 years of misrule was stealing, sharing, and wastage of our own earnings. First consider the trend of increasing salaries of worker not because they are productive but because they are saw easy money. If workers where paid for productivity increase it would av been a different ball game, the senate, hor, and National assembly all forced increase of their salary with the power vested on them. The Federal workers under Yar'adua too got increase not because there was improvement in public system but there was easy money that needed to be shared n not invested.
Secondly, is the issue of stealing. When I say stealing, i mean institutionalized stealing that's much more stronger than what Buhari went against in 1984. Just look at the allowances of our leaders at 36 state level, LGAs, Federal level and you compare their life-styles. Even executives of Banks and telcos who cover the 6 region of the country and its 36 states don't get these types of allowances to function productively yet our system is unproductive at all level.
The third is wastage. Just take a look at the many inflated projects under both APC and PDP controlled states. They waste funds projects that gives them a better looting margin than good profit returns. OPON IMO in Osun, IPPs and Solar street lights in Bayelsa, Delta. Rivers are a few of those kind of projects. Fashola's website and borehole too comes to mind here. Also the many Airport project like runways and Radars under ministers and state governors. Whereas our daily needs like Food, shelter, transportatio(Fuel and cars) were being imported thereby draining our economy of capital.
Buhari is right about 16 years of misrule. Even Russia a world power who had relaxed it system and became dependent on foreign consumables had to set a 7-years recovery plan for reposition of economy even though they had good reserves and savings.
To close, i remind you of the Fact jonathan borrowed at ~$60pb to help cope. So cut Buhari all the slack for even blocking leakages to the extent it has been blocked today.

At that rate alone, it will N600B X 12 = N7.2T. How will that survive in a N6.1B budget? Someone isn't speaking plain English here . . .

Where will the N137b to finance the budget come from? If they keep getting less than N1b allocation, then they are in for a long thing in Osun.

Edwinmason:
but tinubu is nt our leader na

They(wailers) are only trying to divert attention from their political mishaps of the past few days . . . Just pretend you believe him and play along, it will help boost their ego.

Any wailer who didn't get tired when oil sold for $108pb for 4-5yrs has no right to be tired when it is selling for $40pb and services debt from days of $108pb. Any attempt to wail can only reveal the level of bigotry of the wailer.

Prospecmarley:
Oya giv us direct link to download it

OLE.
OP strive to put up a demo version that's 'un-copy-able'.

Sunnynwa:
Jeez, are you for real? Has anyone charged pleaded guilty?

Oooops! . . . Jonathan already plead guilty? Didn't know that.

Sunnynwa:
You are the one that needs to use ur brain. I only applied your logic of believing that people accused of looting actually looted without a court of competent jurisdiction pronouncing them so.

The more reason u need to use ur brain is that you av no logic of your own. Has anyone accussed denied it so far?

PDP is still holding us back with what's left of its influence. 2019 will be PDP cleansing.

crazygod:
Dude learn how to read and understand before commenting. Who has majority seats in the assembly? By d time they seat and turn falana's proposal into a law where special courts different from our normal judicial processes will start trials for 'political opponents' for 'looting' our commonwealth, then u'll know the power of incumbency

Learn to use your brain dude . . .
Does APC control 2/3 of law making tier of government? Stop speculating here n talk in line with the constitution that's in place.

Sunnynwa:
How about the hardship caused by Buhari's looting of $2.8bn in 1979?

So u mean He stole that much n IB the dullard couldn't nail him but decided to steal money with which he paid Dokpesi to smear Buhari's image and character? Use ur brain bros . . .

crazygod:
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Did u read the post at all? Aribisala made some very salient points[/s]. If truly there is a war against corruption, why as at this time has nobody being found guilty and jailed?
Imagine the proposal of femi falana that anybody accused should be found 'guilty until proven innocent'... That to me is an aberation to what law is all about.
What I see happening here is the ruling party trying to snuff the air out of the opposition hence creating a one party system.
History seems to be repeating itself in this so called war against corruption.

Buhari n APC don't control the court processes and speed. Stop being delusional.

How much did Jonathan minister fly?

With the level of theft and hardship it has caused us, i wonder how a sane person will call the acts looting being unravelled daily witch-hunt.

This is why we will hardly move forward as a country. Some persons are ready to sacrifice the anti-corruption crusade just for a few selfish paymasters. It doesn't matter if oil dries tommorow and the next generation have to pay the price of the past leaders with zero investment to fall back on. What we have is a few people calling Nigeria a country because it gurantees their flow of the resource they loot. If oil dries, they tax the people, it that doesn't work they borrow in 'our' children's name and we have a most silly few who sheild them with their intellectual prowress.

Stolen:
The biggest problem we have in this country is the Nigerian Army.


The 1960s pogrom against igbos in the North was led by the Nigeria Army. Tens of thousands of Southerners perished.


That almost divided Nigerians.


Today, the Northerners are victim of the same Army, leading a genocide against its own people because they are from a different religious sect.


As an Igbo, i will not say it is good or pay back but i condemn it in the strongest terms.


Wat is bad is bad. Evil! This is wat differentiate us from Yorubas, we tell the truth.

Na wa oh . . .